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Director of ImaginationLancaster
ImaginationLancaster, Lancaster University
Lancaster. UK
Rachel is Co-Director and Professor of Design Management at ImaginationLancaster, and also Director of the Lancaster Institute of Contemporary Arts. She has authored several books in the field of Design and more than 200 research papers. Publications include The Design Agenda (1995) and The Design Experience (2003), and she is currently commissioning editor for a Gower series on Design for Social Responsibility. In May 2007, she was commissioned by the Foresight programme on Mental Wellbeing and Mental Capital to write the Scientific Review on Mental Wellbeing and the Built Environment. She is Editor of The Design Journal and President of the European Academy of Design; and is on the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and 2008 RAE Panel for Art and Design. Her research interests cover design management; design policy; new product development; design in the built environment; urban regeneration; design against crime and socially responsible design.